> I am using forms authentication to protect all content as described in
> the kb article below.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;893662
>
> This works fine except for files that are larger than about 40 or 50mb
> at which point the user gets a 404 error and the httperr log indicates
> connection_dropped status.
>
> This is a w2k3 server with SP1, Asp.net 1.1 and all security patches
> installed.
>
> Has anyone seen this before? I have been reading various posts online
> but none seem to fit this symptom. Also have tried tuning various
> meta-base properties to no avail.

"Joerg Jooss" wrote:

> Hello thehercman,
>
> > I am using forms authentication to protect all content as described in
> > the kb article below.
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;893662
> >
> > This works fine except for files that are larger than about 40 or 50mb
> > at which point the user gets a 404 error and the httperr log indicates
> > connection_dropped status.
> >
> > This is a w2k3 server with SP1, Asp.net 1.1 and all security patches
> > installed.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this before? I have been reading various posts online
> > but none seem to fit this symptom. Also have tried tuning various
> > meta-base properties to no avail.
>
> How did you implement the download? See also http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823409/en-us.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Joerg Jooss
> news-re***@joergjooss.de
>
>
>